Digital Prototyping Laboratory:
365 Benedum Hall
The difference between theory and practices is theoretically negligible but can be practically different subjects. The Digital Prototyping Laboratory enables the validation of theory through prototyping using Field Programmable Gate Arrays. Numerous prototyping boards are used for rapid prototyping and a soldering station is used for creating new prototype boards. An HP Mainframe Pattern Generator and Logic Analyzer are used for generating test vectors and validating results.
Some of the applications and their respective prototyping kits are as follows:
- General Prototyping and Interfacing -
Nova Engineering PC/104 form factor FPGA (FLEX 10KE, APEX 20KE FPGA’s)
- Memory interfacing -
Nova Constellation Boards and U. Pittsburgh interface PCB for DIMM’s
- Interface to a workstation/PC -
Altera FPGA-based 32 & 64 bit PCI interface cards (FLEX, APEX FPGA’s)
- High Speed Communications -
Megalogic 220 LVDS Dev. Board w/ 16 LVDS I/O and 10GHz of throughput
- Low Cost Controllers and Interface Logic -
Altera University Program Laboratory Package (FLEX and MAX FPGA’s)
